Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-10

fall IN love Will ucA- A.
ing the wishbone of . fowl, n 2 -
larger part and lays it over the sSp
doorway she will not only gee neg 49,.
whatever it may be, but the nrst "a. -
nssses under il will become her uue
love. $500. 49,.
a.ncv IN believe in lucky numbers. Even
nnr,b.u are said to be unlucky oecaose
,bay can he divided by two, thereby de-
noting death aud dissolution. Inc num-
her : Il considered aAucky number becaeso
n human being sheds his teeth %
come a youth at twice 4, . man ~ tnfce
fines Z. and reaches his grand hmAcu1le
At nine times 2. Careful fhrmers' wives
will never set q hen on An even nemDa
eeQs. because q hen is too suPersttiousU
hatch ont an even plumber. Iniee sas
a lucky number. and to sit st o three-sded
table Is a sure harbinger OF fortune
n one wishes to know all the SaSa.ies
that can be INDUCED about Numbers tney
should visit a ''policy shop and study tne
methods of the players. As nearly every,
body knows that interesting game - Piayeo
in Chicago turns upon the drawings Oh scmc
one of the Kentucky or Colorado lotteries,
Twice A dsy there are drawings at
or Coyinptou of Il numbers ont OIL series
running from one 70 q"
player guesses one, two :. 'nIe
of these numbers ne IN
titled to an amount Of money reacning
from five fold TO 300 fold the mount ne
has staked. Numbers, then, form the con,
stant thought of the policy player, o al
the passing accidents and incidents oil the
day are Of interest to him only as they
give him a clew to 0 lucky number. Inc
dream-book is his constant companion, ior
that ingenious work furnishes numbers 70
correspond with all the widest fancies Of
dreamland, and il he can only strike the
right numbers the purse Of Fortunatns
will be surely his. And 50 the constant
chatter of the policy shop IL concerning
luck and lacky numbers.
The English courts had years 9 re
a~uently to decide cases about lucky mum
beers before lotteries. were estsbisned.
Down to about the year 1925 lotteries
were lawful all over this country and also
in England. Il was one Of the ways Of
raising revenue at one time. In one case
reported in the books il appeared that
Mr., Mcclellan owed some kindness 70 Ms
friend Mr.. Bellamy. He bought o guar.
ter ticket i'm a lottery and said BellAmy
sbould have half the proceeds if il turned
up a prize. This was done twice
over, but both tickets were
blanks. Beliamy's daughter then
dreamed that No. 5 would be . Eso,Up
prize. This number was not to be had,
but something told Bellamy to multiply
his daughters number by itself, and d
two 10 it. This made %. No. "a was
bought, aud it drew the En-, 900. Obtain.
ing the money, Mcclellan declared that
his friend had no part in this, o. he had
not renewed his promise after the second
failure Bethany sued him, claiming an
additional percentage for the ingenuity OF
his guess about No. "a. The court held
that Bellamy was entitled to hall the
prize. In another case . man
and his cousin, married
woman, dubbed their small means to buy
a sixteenth of a lottery ticket She went
to the office TO buy il, taking with her Q
little girl. The girl being asked to select
"a number, fixed upon 1884. The ticket
was bought and came up o prize Of flO.-
900. The man vent and secured the SIX
teenth part of the prize, and, having some
peculiar notions of his wi touching the
rights OF married women, pocketed the
whole sum, whereupon the woman sued
him and recovered her hall.
Many odd incidents are related about
lucky numbers in the lottery. A grocer in
London bought four consecutive numbers.
Fearing this would be unlucky, he ex-
changed one Of them, and the rejected
number turned out to be large prize.
Charles Lamb tells o story ofa gentleman
who had purchased No, 1869. Passing q
lottery office, he saw q placard
ing that that number had drawn Ea0, OOO.
lie took q long walk to cool his agitation
before entering the office, On going back
he found that he had mistaken 10, O69 for
,O69.
In the lives Of all successful men there
has undoubtedly been q large element Of
chance OF luck, but ii the matter be care
fully looked at 1t will be found that they
had the ability or u 10 profit by
what chance brought TO them. 1t was not
because the apple fell on Newton's head
that he discovered the laws Of grsvitation,
but the incident simply called his at
tention to = problem he had the ability
to solve. Lord Eskine, the peer
less English advocate, WAS called q
lucky man because in his very first case he
made a widespread sensation, and retain
ers Immediately crowded upon him thick
and fast. But II be had not had the abili.
ty to make the sensational speech the
chance offered him wonld have amounted
to nothing. Chance happens to everybody,
and a certain amount of good fortune falls
to the lot Of all in very equal proportions.
II ONE early or it comes late, but the
difference is that n man ~ profit by u
and another oan not.